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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Beat Bob.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
He's a four time tire rotation champion. When he was
a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid. Bob's
so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also known as Premium Unleaded. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his toes,
and that he can tell your tires ill pressure just.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
By how you're walking.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
He's Bob, He's Kyle, and every Saturday morning they morphed
together to form the greatest superhero known to man. Mister
Mechanic check ee and lights don't stand a chance. This
is the Mister Mechanic Show on eleven ten, kfab.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Good Saturday morning to you. This is a mister Mechanic show.
Five five, eight to eleven ten is the numbers to
get in. Get in early so we can answer those questions.
Get you back out to fixing that car, mowing that lawn.
We'd eaten the fence. Whatever it is you got to do.
I don't know where we can in service centers at
eightieth and Dodge, fiftieth and Dodge guaranteed breaks forty ninth
(01:06):
aven do and Dodge, so stop in see us and
get your get your car back on the road. We've
been doing some lawnmower tires. What about you, Kyle, I
haven't seen any lawnmowers yet.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, I got some wand more tired. So we've done.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
We don't normally do those, but we'll do those for
the neighbor neighborhood people and try to help out a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
And some of them are kind of tough on our
machines because our machines are built for big tires.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Now, yeah they are, but you know, if you old
school have done them before, you can and you know,
ex screw driver and a pair of ice grips, that's
what you need. Patients, Yeah, a lot of patients. And
you know the last two I did had tubes in them. Yeah,
that's kind of and we did I did a wheelbarrow
tied yesterday. So somebody's getting the mulch out and kind
of wheeling and around and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Those tires just sit around it. Boy, this one was
so cracked.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
It's like so many of those are going to solid
tires where it's just all rubber and you just throw
it away when it's wore out and put a new
one on. I don't have to worry about that air
or nothing. I mean, who cares about ride it's a
garden tractor or a wheelbarrow.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, you're just trying to get your project done and done.
And this tired did not look that great. And I said,
I'm gonna only air this up to twenty pounds alway,
you aired up the rest of the way. Oh yeah,
But you know, I just need a small little project.
You don't want to carry that bag from here to there.
You gotta get it going. A lot of gas. I
see a lot of two cycle gas that's coming in.
You know, they dump it out and put new in,
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and uh, don't forget your oil. Yeah, don't forget your oil.
You know, I've always kind of just mixed mine just
a little strong or just maybe a little light.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
And then yeah, I mean, what's the worst is going
to happen? You get rid of mosquitoes?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Well whatever snow yeah, whatever snowblower stuff
I use. I just used as in a weed eater and
it just smokes more. Yeah, it always seems to work.
I never really had a problem with it. But and gas,
you know, gas, just regular gas. Of course, you know,
if you're gonna use, uh, lawnmower stuff like that. Use premium.
You know it's I.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Don't know, Well, eat a carburetor.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It will and the gaskets and then when you've let
it set, it is not gums up.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I guess is the best word. I'd say calcification that
gets in there, but.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
It becomes its own ecosystem inside your carburetor.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It kind of does. It looks like a cave. Yeah.
They normally don't come out of it.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And this goes for cars to cars and your lawnmower.
And just buy the premium. I know it's more expensive,
but it's only two gallons. There's only five gallons, and
it saves you a lot of repair down the line,
it really does. And as long as you take that gas,
that premium gas, and you put it in a suitable
container and keep it closed and keep the kind of
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air out of it, it'll last all year long.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, two year.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, it lasts a long time. Yeah, it lasts into you.
You don't have to get unless if you don't use
that much. You kind of go through it at times.
But we've got so much more electric things that are
coming out now, and batteries are getting better and we
are getting better.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
And you know one thing that I was at home
depot just last night starting another project, believe it or not. Yeah,
so I was looking at lawnmowers. They don't you know
that little roombo looking lawnmower thing, that remote control deal
that you know, cuts your grass for you while you're away.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I kind of like to have one of those. I
just just have not caught on here. I mean I
couldn't even find one there. And you know, last summer
when we were in Canada, they were everywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Really.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I mean we went to a monument. There's twenty of
them around this thing and they got little docking stations
and it just cuts its section of grass and goes
back at parks. Yeah, they have not caught on. And
people had them at their house up there.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I think it's kind of a lot like putting up
a electric dog fence. I mean, you've got you set up, yeah,
but once you said it, you're done. But you know,
I've looked into a couple of them just to see
what they cost, and they are, you know, anywhere from
five hundred dollars to twenty five hundred dollars. Sure, and
you get the big ones that'll know, you know, an
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acre or so. I mean that that's really where I
think the deal is, right.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I don't know how well it would work in my yard,
but I mean I would love it.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Well, mo, was just a little bit of a time.
Yeah it doesn't. It doesn't wop off six inches at
a time.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You use, Well, that's fine. It could take the whole
day for all I can as I don't got to
do it. But yeah, it'd be so plugged up with
dog turns and branches and stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
To hose it out every once in a while.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Worry about it shortened.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Well, yeah, it's long as it's electric. I mean, if
it's a gas powered one, it just to be kind
of noisy. Who knows, jeez. I see an article here
I thought was interesting. You know, gas today around town
is right about two eighty nine, and I thought it
was interesting here to kind of show you what what
it costs around the world. And this is all done
(05:51):
of course, we you know, we've got leaders and gallons,
but this particular model all goes by the price per gallon,
and it's converted already, so can it is four seventy four,
and these obviously are going to change a little bit
back and forth. But Venezuela's thirteen cents.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Well it ain't bad.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, Brazil is three forty nine, Russia's to twenty eight.
Norway and this has more to do with the taxes
than anything else, is seven twenty four per gallon of gas.
I ran it was eleven cents, you know. And then
do they have stations over there? Well, you'd have to
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just pull it out of the ground. Well, I do
think you got to refine it first, Kyle, They don't.
They got to refine it first.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah. Are you sure?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I've seen some of those mechanic videos.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, you're right, and not where is it?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Hong Kong is like twelve dollars a gallon, China's four forty,
so it kind of it widely.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Could you imagine filling up your pickup in Hong Kong?
Oh gosh no, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I cry every time. Well, you wouldn't want go anywhere?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah, I mean your average twelve dollars a gallon? What
have we got twenty four gallon tanks in our trucks?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Twenty twenty four to thirty Yeah, I suppose you pulled
it out of the dry pulled out of the garage
and you just kind of look at it and you
lock it and then walk to work.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I suppose.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yeah, so when you go to sell the car, the
amount of gas in it, I mean, that's a big
part of your price.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's a negotiation tool. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Well it's only got a quarter tank. I mean you're
gonna have to knock five drand off of it.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, just yeah, it's interesting about how well I suppose,
how close it is with Iran and everything else. The
the eleven cents, but that would be nice.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
What was it before? It's only eleven cents now? I
mean was it free before? Yeah? Or one cent or
two cent? I mean you got to half a cent
of gallon. You got to be able to put that.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
You have to buy a minimum of two gallons. You
owe me a penny.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah, and the pity isn't worth even producing anymore. So
it's kind of like you know what, I don't know,
I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's always something. It is it is.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Well, so it just kind of shows that we're kind
of where we're even at three dollars a gallon, we're
doing pretty darn good. Yeah, not too bad, No, it hasn't.
Of course, it's the seventies. I remember filling gas and
in mid to late seventies for you know, thirty eight
forty eight cents a gallon.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I think when I started driving, it was around a
buck and a quarter somewhere and around there.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
So we haven't really we hadn't.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
It hasn't like milk, it hasn't really gone up to
where it could have been, right, Yeah, otherwise, you know,
milk should have been nine dollars by now with inflation.
But since it's not, but it's good, how do they
come up with that? Well, there's a cow shortage. There's
how where we're at, there's always a cow shortage. It's
just kind of like there's always some calamity that goes
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on that makes price go up, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Yeah, it's always something bird flu, can't have chicken eggs? Yeah,
And then I mean, because I was thinking about it,
because everybody's freaking out about these chicken How often do
I actually eat eggs to where this is going to
affect me?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, well, a lot of I think a lot of
people are in that boat. But there are a lot
of people that use it all the time for you know,
staple theer diet. But oh, my gosh. Well you get aady,
it comes back down supply and demand. That's just part
of part of life. Just kind of like cars, cars
that are the high prices, and maybe you're coming for
the for the new cars. So here the uptick and
(09:22):
the used cars go up, and it's just kind of
supply it they don't you don't need used cars.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
They go down.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
The only thing about used cars is you can't have
used cars unless new one. A new one. That's just
part of the game. And the problem is there's so
many used ones out there. It's easy to find.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah, we were talking together. I mean the days of
the five hundred dollars cars just those are gone. No,
you're getting nothing for five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, waken.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I mean we used to find cars that were, you know,
pretty decent. Throw a little bit of money out of
here and there, and you can keep them going for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
No more.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Now they've rusted away. Yeah, now that they've completely they're
not even They don't and give you bring you much
scrap because there's not much there to scrap. Most of
its falling, yeah, coming across sideways. So all right, we're
gonna take a quick break on the Mister Mechanics show five, five, eight, eleven,
tens of numbers to get in.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
We'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Now. This is a story all about how my wrenches
got thripped turned upside down. Man, I'd like to take
a minute. Just sit right there. I'll tell you how
it changed the oil on a Chevy bel Air on
the west side of a dirty garage in a twenty
fourteen minute you Bisu mirage. I was chilling out max
(10:36):
In lubing some gears when I saw a couple of
dudes who were up in the years. When these old
dudes pulled into the station, smelling like genter cream, prudes
and bacon, they said, pull up your pants unless you
ready to tussle or maybe take a look at some
American muscle. They pulled out of maybe seven or eight
and I headed home, thinking, man, that was great. A
couple of old dudes without any hair. Let me worked
(10:56):
on a fifty seven Chevy bel Air.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Here is an article I kind of dug up here
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
With all these tariffs going on, everybody's wondering this, wondering that,
and just you know, trying to buy more American, bring
more everything.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Here, which is great.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
You know, I would love all that how much US
buyers matter to foreign car brands, so how much the
foreign car brands really kind of need United States? And
this has kind of gone in percentage and kind of
goes down the line. But thirty nine percent of Honda
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is kind of depends on United States, twenty nine percent
for Houndai, twenty eight percent for Nissan. So I mean,
you got to it kind of goes down on this,
So it's not as much as I thought it would be. Ye,
Honda is, you know, nearly forty percent, so that's a
big number. Yeah, Well, we're talking about the whole world. Yeah, yeah,
we are. We are talking about the whole world. And
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because there's I mean obviously there's eighteen million, nineteen million
cars build worldwide that get consumed new cards get consumed
every year.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
That's a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
And I think we did an article a while back
that you got over in any one point now you've
got about a billion cars on the on the planet
that are running, and you know that kind of ebbs
and flows depending on the.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Any given time, I've got three at my house at art.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Well, yeah, or heading to the salvage yard and then
they're getting, you know, redone, so I don't know that
number kind of goes up and down. Twenty five and
I'll kind of go through the list here a little bit.
You know, a Key is twenty eight, and then they
kind of go with Hondi a little bit. Ferrari's twenty five.
Toyota is twenty five, BMW seventeen, of Bobo sixteen, same
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for Mercedes, Audi and Boltswagen. Volkswagen is twelve. Yeah, that's interesting.
I thought that it seems like, yeah, we have a
lot of Volkswagons. Yeah, a lot Ferrari. I'm surprised at
that number. I mean, because I mean they aren't turning
out cars like Toyota. No, I mean how many cars
is Ferrari meke a year?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Not that many.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I mean you're talking about one thousands, yes, in the thousands,
yeah if that Yeah, maybe one hundred thousand of depending
on the model there is, but more like fifty sixty thousand. Yeah,
and apparently most of the buyers are in the United States,
well twenty five percent of the buyers and seventy five
percent are around the world. But just an interesting of
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cars and how they are. So what's hit.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Over to Jim.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Jim's got a twenty fourteen Lexus Jim, what's up today?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Well, hey, guys, Hey, I've got a a twenty fourteen
Lexus ES three fifteen and it's got about one hundred
and forty thousand miles. Thing runs like a top as
I've had very little money that I had put into
this thing. Question about things like radiator hoses and things
like that, they've never been replaced. They seem okay, is
that something that I should be concerned about?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Well, so the reason that they go better now is
they have figured out electrolysis and the electricity that used
to flow through the coolant, and that's why hoses used
to go bad back in the sixties and seventies. And
now I think the hose technology got better. They figured
out the electricity problem and how to make that goat
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away with grounding things, and they just don't go bad
as much as they used to. I say, when you
get to a certain point that the hot and cold
just takes effect, so they get squishy and rock hard.
I mean a lot of times when we replace the radiator,
we recommend hoses, not because we're trying to say, hey,
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we need to upsell it's just when you take off
that rock hard hose and try to put it back
on it just it creates a seal and a leak somewhere.
Do you take it out of town or is it
primarily an intown car.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
In the country. So most of my driving is on the.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Highway with yeah, yeah, so it is.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
So, you know, it was doing from Omaha, and I'm
you know, I'm real good about you know, I've changed
the equivalent about three times since I've had it, you know,
oil changes and all that other stuff. So I keep
up on the maintenance on the thing, right, I would.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Say, you know a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
If it's an in town car, you know, maybe it
isn't necessarily that critical because you're never far away from
a tow truck that can you know, two three, four
miles and you can get it fixed. But if you're
putting a lot of miles on it and you kind
of go back and forth and you're kind of relying
on it to do that, it probably wouldn't hurt. It
really wouldn't. I mean, if you're going to do one
to do them all it's and do the heater hoses
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along with them. No, it's good maintenance, especially with the
miles you got on. But they're great cars. I mean
they just run and run and run.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Yeah, I think from from a repair perspective. Since I've
had it, I've put about six into it, and that's
over ten years worth of driving. So it's just uhmal car,
really it is. Yeah, you got any oil anything like that.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
So we've had several of these particular cars.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Just run right up to three hundred and three hundred
and twenty five each and at a customer did a
lot of driving and once they hit about three to
three and a quarter they got rid of it and
went and found another one just.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Like it, the low mileage. So yeah, very very durable car.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Okay, really good. Okay, well listen, guys, I appreciate it.
I may contact my local mechanic and see what he
can do about changing that's hoses or something.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Absolutely, yeah, And I'm sure you've kept up with the
timing belts correct.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Well, that doesn't have a time Oh that got chain
on it?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Oh good? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah, yeah, I can't remember when they went through off
a belt into into chain anymore.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
So yeah, no belts do that. You'd be done.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Appreciate it, all right, guys, appreciate, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
To call Jim.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, I can never They went from belts to chains
and back to belts, and now they're Iribay's chains again. Yeah,
except for though oil pump belts. Yeah, those are those
are belts. But why do we go back to oil
pump belts? Why did the three leader Duramax and the
V six go back to a rubber belt in the
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oil in the back of the engine. Yeah, that takes
nine hours to pull. M Yeah, you got to say,
answered I Yeah, all right, all this question, We're gonna
head over to Mike. Mike's got a twenty seventeen Nissan Rogue. Mike,
what's up today?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
Hey, how you doing? My wife has a twenty seventeen
Nissan Rogue and she's complaining that sometimes when she's at
a spot light and she goes to accelerate, she won't
have anything like no RPMs. The car doesn't go nowhere
for like a five second pause, then the car will
go and act normal. I wasn't quite sure what.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That would be.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Would it be like trial position censor or something along
those lines.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
So when you floor the gas like, you get no
response at all, not even a hiccup in rpm. Nothing okay,
So that would lead me straight to a throttle issue. Right,
is there any check engine light on if you scan
the car at all?
Speaker 7 (18:15):
No, no check engine light. I did have a guy
hook it up to a scan tool where you can
watch the parameters go up and down, and he said
everything looked normal. So I wasn't quite sure.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Well, you're trying to catch a needle in a haystack,
and because your problem doesn't happen all the time, that's
why it's looking normal.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
But you really only you.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Only have a gas pedal and you only have a
throttle body. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Out of those two, Kyle,
I would think the throttle body is your biggest offender here.
But when you step on the gas, there's electronic signals
that go from that gas pedal out to the throttle body.
And part of the problem is when you're stepping on
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the gas, the delay could be at the pedal or
the delay could be at the throttle body, because the
throttle body received the signal and it says, I don't
know what to do with this, and then it finally
takes off and off it goes out of a fifty
to fifty. Uh you know, flip with the coin on
that we're going to probably take the throttle body.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Oh yeah, bottle money, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Just what.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You just don't have a lot of failures across cars
with the gas pedal, yes, correct.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
You just don't. It doesn't see any weather. It just
kind of hangs out there on the floor.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yeah, it's not impossible, but I would say, what five
to ten percent, Kyle, if that, If that is a
pedal problem, and the only pedal problems, we'll usually see
your general motors, some Fords, but most of the general motors.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Okay, oh well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
There might be a few of those in the salvage yard.
I bet you there are. I know there are there
because there's a bunch of them there.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
We've said there's a bunch of them in the salvage
because the trainings are bad.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
So you might get oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Well good good.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Well, I mean to see, you might have other parts
that you require to be there that are probably instill
in good shape because the training is bad in that car.
So and it's quick, easy to do it and pull
it and check it, and you haven't put a lot
of money into it, you know, and it might have
might have a pedal there also, So but I tried
we'd started the throttle body.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Oh yeah, awesome. I appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Tellas, have a great day, appreciate the call.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yeah, you know, when we went to throttle went to
throttle bodies, it was kind of like, you know, I
don't know, but we got rid of a lot of stuff.
Oh yeah, we got rid of the throttle position sensor
that always failed. I got all this stuff all in
one unit, all in one unit, and it's been tremendously
dependable compared to the the IAC motor, the IDOL speed
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control motor, and all that crap that was on there.
So yeah, it's it's been a it's been a positive.
So all right, we're gonna take a quick break on
the Mister Mechanics show. Five, five, eight to eleven, ten
is the numbers to get in. We've got some open lines.
Give us a call. Pay back in a minute. Bob's
got an eighteen Nissan Rogue, Bob, what's up today?
Speaker 9 (21:13):
Hey this show, buddy, Bob. Bob, my son got his
daughter a eighteen Rogues. There is there a problem with
the translates on those?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, yeah, all of them.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
How many and how many miles do you do you
have an idea or no?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Anywhere from eighteen to excuse me, eighty to about one
hundred and twenty five hundred and thirty right in that range.
Here's the problem with nobody has the technology to rebuild
these particular CBT transmissions, so you end up buying a
new one. So it's it's there anywhere from four thousand
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to eight thousand dollars on the model. That not all
for rogues. I mean, this is a cross Nissan. You
can't really re build them. You can rebuild them, but
not not successfully that anybody's ever really done and have
any reliability. That's really what it boils down to. They're
very complicated and there's no outsource for parts on those.
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I believe you cannot find a part for internally in
that transmission. Yeah, we had one the other day that
I think I can't remember what it was, but it
was kind of a small, insignificant part and say in
the valve body, well, we just want to replace that
switch or whatever it was, and we were just told
you it's not available. I can't replace that switch. That
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that switch is going to cost you five thousand dollars
because you have to do a whole thing, so that
is in your forecast. Hate to tell you, if it
was me, i'd make sure that the fluid how many
miles yours got on it.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
I think.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I would say, go get yourself a powertrain warranty, but
that covers the engine and transmission and uh, because if
you're going to keep that car for a long time,
you're you're more than likely going to use it.
Speaker 9 (23:14):
Well, yeah, I think he got that on there. I
don't know if it had the hailstorm and then they
they totaled it mm hmm, and so you know he
bought it back because and just replaced the windshield.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Well, you know, other than that, they're not a terrible car,
but that's just a huge expense, and a lot of
them go to the salvage yard because by the time
you spend five six grand on a on a transmission,
you're teetering with what the yeah, where the car is worth?
And it's like, well, I'm throwing I'm throwing good money
after bad. Get yourself an extended warranty so it covers
(23:54):
the powertrain, engine, transmission.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
You'd be fine if not.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Get ahold of Mike Mike needs some parts for his Yeah,
he needs he needs a torottle body.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Maybe you can swap some parts around.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
Hey, hey, thanks for jaking. Jared'siled on my son and
large up.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Oh, no problem, Bob, anytime. Appreciate you appreciate your business.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
All right, thanks.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
Man, that was nice to you. Guys checked all the
lights and everything. I can't check ray legs when I'm
in the car.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
It's tough.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
You're just not that quick anymore. I can't still, but
it's tough. I know, blazing speed. All right, we're gonna
head over to Jerry. Jerry's got a twenty twelve Silverado. Jerry,
what's up today?
Speaker 10 (24:42):
Well, I'm having trouble with the theater. It's got the
dual climate control, you know, one for the passenger side
of one for the driver's side. And if I turn
it down, you know, uh say, like you're driving and
it's cooling the or war, I need warm air. It
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works fine, but if you turn it down in the
afternoon on the driver's side only, yeah, and then you
park it, you know later at night you come out,
you want a little warm air, you turn it up,
and it sometimes not all the time, won't come back
up on the driver's side. But if you leave it
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parked overnight and you remember to turn it back up
before you park it, so you.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
Want warm air in the morning, when you take off
of the frosty, it'll blow warm air. But if you
turn it down, it doesn't do it all the time.
You turn it down and you try to turn it
back up, it won't blow warm air. It blow cold
air all the time, just on the driver's side.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
And thought needs an actuator. Yeah, it needs an actuator.
And it sounds to me like Kyle, I tell me
if I'm wrong, Once it goes all the way down
to the bottom, it's probably just sticky.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
And then if you or the gears stripped out.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Right, So if you when you bring it up a
little ways halfway through its motion, it's that that motion
in there, it operates okay, and or it's just it's
gone bad in the down position, and that's why it
takes a little bit of time to go and that's
why when you put it up it's still good in
that up position. That makes sense. So yeah, and it
(26:29):
sounds to me like your control heads working okay. And
the control heads hardly had much of a problem when
those that they.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Were always really pretty darn good.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Okay, So yeah, you got plastic gears in a plastic housing.
The only thing metal in that particular actuator is the
little tiny windings in that little tiny motor. And that's
about it.
Speaker 11 (26:49):
So okay. But the you know the one on the
passenger side, I've tried that one, and you can turn
now and down all the way and then you're driving
and you turn it up all the way. You're a
blow hotter and you turn it down all the way. Yeah,
that one still.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Then there is. Yeah, so you've got dual actuators. You've
got how many in that? So if you've got dual mode,
you've got five actuators underneath the dash? Okay, so that yeah,
So make sure that when you are replacing that one,
because I would probably say the one he's afters up
by the gas pedal.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Sometimes they were underneath, like on the passenger side, depends.
I can't think of the year. I just know what
it looks like underneath the dash. But you can always
because they're all easy to get to. They aren't hard
to get to, Yeah, and just pop one down and
just kind of use your hand and turn the door
and see if it's affecting the side you want.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, or move it up and down.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
But whatever you do, make sure you mark it so
that way when you go back later or you know,
you don't mistake which one you don't want to take
out the wrong one.
Speaker 11 (27:59):
Well yeah, no, no, okay, all right, I'll give it
that a WORL man.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
All right, sounds good. Jerry appreciate the call. All right,
we're going to head over to Brian. Brian's got a
twenty sixteen GMC Brian? What is up today?
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I can?
Speaker 8 (28:19):
Yeah, So I got kind of a nuisance problem. My
door chime, the seatbelt.
Speaker 12 (28:26):
Alarm, all that stuff is matched.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
Out volume, and any amount of resetting or adjustment of
that particular item makes no difference. I'm just curious if
that is purely software or if there's some other component.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
To be honest, this is the first dealing with that
particular noise that.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I've come across.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, but but since I've owned a few of these cars,
I do know that you can go in, and so
do you You know you can go in and you can
You only got like two or three it's like low
medium and high that you can adjust that with and that.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Part of the fuse block, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
It's going to say part of the fuse blocks are
part of the b CM. The b CM is what's
controlling that. So it's kind of like your your turn
signals go through the b CM and that's what's you know,
that's where you can hear the click click click is
coming through the speakers. It's not coming from a physical
relay anymore underneath the dash. So to answer your question, yeah,
(29:26):
you're kind of on the right area where that's that's
through the b CM, and there's not much you're going
to be able to do to affect it, change it,
move it, unless you go maybe the dealership has you know,
equipment that they can go through their scanner and maybe
(29:46):
change the parameters and maybe get rid of that. Maybe
an update on the computer will or the b CM
will can can get rid of it completely.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
That'd be nice, wouldn't it. Yeah, that'd be nice.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
I did a little bit of Internet research and it
does seem like it's happened to others, so it's not
just mine.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
But nope, set right after fourteen to eighteen when they
changed that body style is when they started to have
a lot of electronic goofy problems. The seven to thirteen
was a rock solid platform that just did not have
it has problems, as all do, but it just did
not have a lot of inside problems at all. It
(30:27):
was just it was bulletproof for the most part. But
at fourteen and on is when they kind of started
hadding some more problems. But yeah, that's kind of where
you're heading, all right, Sorry to tell you, but it's
gut can be kind of annoying. You're right, it is annoying, nuisance,
kind of noise.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Yeah, and it's super loud, and they don't.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Turn it down far enough. They should have four or
five notches. They should be able to turn that all
the way down to hardly anything, right, because I wish
mine was a little bit less than one.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
I don't know why we still have it, I mean,
other than to remember your keys, because the headlights will
turn off on their own, the dome lights will off
on their own.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
What do we need to chime?
Speaker 8 (31:03):
Yeah, And I've I've gotten in the habit of buckling
my seat belt before I start the truck, just to
avoid it.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah, and that's kind of the goal. Yeah, but that's
not our goal. That's just kind of the goal, right,
all right. I appreciate the call, Brian. Yeah, we've got
there are you know. Unfortunately we don't wear a seat
belt all the time because we're when we're driving customers
(31:30):
cards other bysy'd be putting the seat belt on and
off forty forty times a day, you know. And it's
just there are somewhere going around the block. Yeah, it's
just yeah, we're out your shoulder. Man, Are they allowed?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Man?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Are they annoying?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I tell you what, all right, we take quick breaking
the mister mechanic show will be back in a minute.
It's you know, interesting how they change models, Like I
was talking about that GMC, how that seven to thirteen
just was a great card, didn't have much problems inside outside,
they just got it all together even I mean, oh,
seven's only had a few problems, but they are always
that first year model always does. And as soon as
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they changed into the fourteen, it was had all sorts
of interesting problems. First year the eight speed, which has
been an ongoing those were a problem lawsuit and yeah
eight speed transmission, and then it just had electronic problems
and it just like all the time that we spent
(32:25):
doing getting it right, just to turn it somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Yeah, because the four OL sixty and the four L eighty,
those were good transmissions, I mean for the most part.
I mean once you started hauling with them, they had
some problems. But people are known to overload things all
the time.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yeah, And as long as you service transmission, you know,
it's it's one of those things that get away from you.
You know, you service it every sixty thousand miles and
just keep the fluid in it good and clean. And
the death of a transmission has to do with heat.
So if you're hauling something, you need to try to
figure out and usually these newer modern trucks have a
(33:01):
temperature range and you just don't want to get it
too high. And when he does, is just bakes things
in there makes it go bad lower the better, believe
it or not. So all right, we're going to head
over to Joe. Joe's got a Mustang. Joe, what's going
on today?
Speaker 12 (33:19):
So I just wanted to comment the person that called
in earlier who had the throttle position sensor that he
thought might be bad. Yeah, I had a twenty fifteen
Mustang that when the car could not sense if the
brake was disengaged. It would keep you from stepping on it,
like it was a preventer for power breaking. There was
(33:42):
a plastic piece on the brake arm that broke and
it was not engaging the sensor that said your foot
was off the brake. That screwed up the ability to
give throttle to the car. And the way I figured
it out was when I parked at the brake lights
were still on. I don't know if there's anything on
his car, but it threw me for a big loop.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Yeah, yeah, that is interesting. Yeah, because you're right, it's
in order for the car to restart on the on
certain cars you've got, it knows when you pull the
your foot off the brake, is that that's where your
restart mechanimic mechanism is So yeah, it wasn't yeah, yeah, yeah,
but the concept is kind of the same.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
But yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
That's interesting. I appreciate the appreciate the call. I appreciate
passing that on. Yeah, if you always find interesting goofy
things like that all the time.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
So much stuff happens when you push a pedal in
the car,
Beat Bob.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
He's a four time tire rotation champion. When he was
a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid. Bob's
so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also known as Premium Unleaded. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his toes,
and that he can tell your tires ill pressure just.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
By how you're walking.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
He's Bob, He's Kyle, and every Saturday morning they morphed
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Mechanic check ee and lights don't stand a chance. This
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Speaker 3 (00:46):
Good Saturday morning to you. This is a mister Mechanic show.
Five five, eight to eleven ten is the numbers to
get in. Get in early so we can answer those questions.
Get you back out to fixing that car, mowing that lawn.
We'd eaten the fence. Whatever it is you got to do.
I don't know where we can in service centers at
eightieth and Dodge, fiftieth and Dodge guaranteed breaks forty ninth
(01:06):
aven do and Dodge, so stop in see us and
get your get your car back on the road. We've
been doing some lawnmower tires. What about you, Kyle, I
haven't seen any lawnmowers yet.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, I got some wand more tired. So we've done.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
We don't normally do those, but we'll do those for
the neighbor neighborhood people and try to help out a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
And some of them are kind of tough on our
machines because our machines are built for big tires.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Now, yeah they are, but you know, if you old
school have done them before, you can and you know,
ex screw driver and a pair of ice grips, that's
what you need. Patients, Yeah, a lot of patients. And
you know the last two I did had tubes in them. Yeah,
that's kind of and we did I did a wheelbarrow
tied yesterday. So somebody's getting the mulch out and kind
of wheeling and around and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Those tires just sit around it. Boy, this one was
so cracked.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
It's like so many of those are going to solid
tires where it's just all rubber and you just throw
it away when it's wore out and put a new
one on. I don't have to worry about that air
or nothing. I mean, who cares about ride it's a
garden tractor or a wheelbarrow.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, you're just trying to get your project done and done.
And this tired did not look that great. And I said,
I'm gonna only air this up to twenty pounds alway,
you aired up the rest of the way. Oh yeah,
But you know, I just need a small little project.
You don't want to carry that bag from here to there.
You gotta get it going. A lot of gas. I
see a lot of two cycle gas that's coming in.
You know, they dump it out and put new in,
(02:26):
and uh, don't forget your oil. Yeah, don't forget your oil.
You know, I've always kind of just mixed mine just
a little strong or just maybe a little light.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
And then yeah, I mean, what's the worst is going
to happen? You get rid of mosquitoes?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Well whatever snow yeah, whatever snowblower stuff
I use. I just used as in a weed eater and
it just smokes more. Yeah, it always seems to work.
I never really had a problem with it. But and gas,
you know, gas, just regular gas. Of course, you know,
if you're gonna use, uh, lawnmower stuff like that. Use premium.
You know it's I.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Don't know, Well, eat a carburetor.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It will and the gaskets and then when you've let
it set, it is not gums up.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I guess is the best word. I'd say calcification that
gets in there, but.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
It becomes its own ecosystem inside your carburetor.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It kind of does. It looks like a cave. Yeah.
They normally don't come out of it.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And this goes for cars to cars and your lawnmower.
And just buy the premium. I know it's more expensive,
but it's only two gallons. There's only five gallons, and
it saves you a lot of repair down the line,
it really does. And as long as you take that gas,
that premium gas, and you put it in a suitable
container and keep it closed and keep the kind of
(03:38):
air out of it, it'll last all year long.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, two year.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, it lasts a long time. Yeah, it lasts into you.
You don't have to get unless if you don't use
that much. You kind of go through it at times.
But we've got so much more electric things that are
coming out now, and batteries are getting better and we
are getting better.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
And you know one thing that I was at home
depot just last night starting another project, believe it or not. Yeah,
so I was looking at lawnmowers. They don't you know
that little roombo looking lawnmower thing, that remote control deal
that you know, cuts your grass for you while you're away.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I kind of like to have one of those. I
just just have not caught on here. I mean I
couldn't even find one there. And you know, last summer
when we were in Canada, they were everywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Really.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I mean we went to a monument. There's twenty of
them around this thing and they got little docking stations
and it just cuts its section of grass and goes
back at parks. Yeah, they have not caught on. And
people had them at their house up there.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I think it's kind of a lot like putting up
a electric dog fence. I mean, you've got you set up, yeah,
but once you said it, you're done. But you know,
I've looked into a couple of them just to see
what they cost, and they are, you know, anywhere from
five hundred dollars to twenty five hundred dollars. Sure, and
you get the big ones that'll know, you know, an
(04:59):
acre or so. I mean that that's really where I
think the deal is, right.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I don't know how well it would work in my yard,
but I mean I would love it.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Well, mo, was just a little bit of a time.
Yeah it doesn't. It doesn't wop off six inches at
a time.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You use, Well, that's fine. It could take the whole
day for all I can as I don't got to
do it. But yeah, it'd be so plugged up with
dog turns and branches and stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
To hose it out every once in a while.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Worry about it shortened.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Well, yeah, it's long as it's electric. I mean, if
it's a gas powered one, it just to be kind
of noisy. Who knows, jeez. I see an article here
I thought was interesting. You know, gas today around town
is right about two eighty nine, and I thought it
was interesting here to kind of show you what what
it costs around the world. And this is all done
(05:51):
of course, we you know, we've got leaders and gallons,
but this particular model all goes by the price per gallon,
and it's converted already, so can it is four seventy four,
and these obviously are going to change a little bit
back and forth. But Venezuela's thirteen cents.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Well it ain't bad.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, Brazil is three forty nine, Russia's to twenty eight.
Norway and this has more to do with the taxes
than anything else, is seven twenty four per gallon of gas.
I ran it was eleven cents, you know. And then
do they have stations over there? Well, you'd have to
(06:33):
just pull it out of the ground. Well, I do
think you got to refine it first, Kyle, They don't.
They got to refine it first.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah. Are you sure?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I've seen some of those mechanic videos.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, you're right, and not where is it?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Hong Kong is like twelve dollars a gallon, China's four forty,
so it kind of it widely.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Could you imagine filling up your pickup in Hong Kong?
Oh gosh no, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I cry every time. Well, you wouldn't want go anywhere?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah, I mean your average twelve dollars a gallon? What
have we got twenty four gallon tanks in our trucks?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Twenty twenty four to thirty Yeah, I suppose you pulled
it out of the dry pulled out of the garage
and you just kind of look at it and you
lock it and then walk to work.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I suppose.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yeah, so when you go to sell the car, the
amount of gas in it, I mean, that's a big
part of your price.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's a negotiation tool. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Well it's only got a quarter tank. I mean you're
gonna have to knock five drand off of it.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, just yeah, it's interesting about how well I suppose,
how close it is with Iran and everything else. The
the eleven cents, but that would be nice.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
What was it before? It's only eleven cents now? I
mean was it free before? Yeah? Or one cent or
two cent? I mean you got to half a cent
of gallon. You got to be able to put that.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
You have to buy a minimum of two gallons. You
owe me a penny.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah, and the pity isn't worth even producing anymore. So
it's kind of like you know what, I don't know,
I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's always something. It is it is.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Well, so it just kind of shows that we're kind
of where we're even at three dollars a gallon, we're
doing pretty darn good. Yeah, not too bad, No, it hasn't.
Of course, it's the seventies. I remember filling gas and
in mid to late seventies for you know, thirty eight
forty eight cents a gallon.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I think when I started driving, it was around a
buck and a quarter somewhere and around there.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
So we haven't really we hadn't.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
It hasn't like milk, it hasn't really gone up to
where it could have been, right, Yeah, otherwise, you know,
milk should have been nine dollars by now with inflation.
But since it's not, but it's good, how do they
come up with that? Well, there's a cow shortage. There's
how where we're at, there's always a cow shortage. It's
just kind of like there's always some calamity that goes
(08:47):
on that makes price go up, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Yeah, it's always something bird flu, can't have chicken eggs? Yeah,
And then I mean, because I was thinking about it,
because everybody's freaking out about these chicken How often do
I actually eat eggs to where this is going to
affect me?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, well, a lot of I think a lot of
people are in that boat. But there are a lot
of people that use it all the time for you know,
staple theer diet. But oh, my gosh. Well you get aady,
it comes back down supply and demand. That's just part
of part of life. Just kind of like cars, cars
that are the high prices, and maybe you're coming for
the for the new cars. So here the uptick and
(09:22):
the used cars go up, and it's just kind of
supply it they don't you don't need used cars.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
They go down.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
The only thing about used cars is you can't have
used cars unless new one. A new one. That's just
part of the game. And the problem is there's so
many used ones out there. It's easy to find.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah, we were talking together. I mean the days of
the five hundred dollars cars just those are gone. No,
you're getting nothing for five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, waken.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I mean we used to find cars that were, you know,
pretty decent. Throw a little bit of money out of
here and there, and you can keep them going for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
No more.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Now they've rusted away. Yeah, now that they've completely they're
not even They don't and give you bring you much
scrap because there's not much there to scrap. Most of
its falling, yeah, coming across sideways. So all right, we're
gonna take a quick break on the Mister Mechanics show five, five, eight, eleven,
tens of numbers to get in.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
We'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Now. This is a story all about how my wrenches
got thripped turned upside down. Man, I'd like to take
a minute. Just sit right there. I'll tell you how
it changed the oil on a Chevy bel Air on
the west side of a dirty garage in a twenty
fourteen minute you Bisu mirage. I was chilling out max
(10:36):
In lubing some gears when I saw a couple of
dudes who were up in the years. When these old
dudes pulled into the station, smelling like genter cream, prudes
and bacon, they said, pull up your pants unless you
ready to tussle or maybe take a look at some
American muscle. They pulled out of maybe seven or eight
and I headed home, thinking, man, that was great. A
couple of old dudes without any hair. Let me worked
(10:56):
on a fifty seven Chevy bel Air.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Here is an article I kind of dug up here
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
With all these tariffs going on, everybody's wondering this, wondering that,
and just you know, trying to buy more American, bring
more everything.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Here, which is great.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
You know, I would love all that how much US
buyers matter to foreign car brands, so how much the
foreign car brands really kind of need United States? And
this has kind of gone in percentage and kind of
goes down the line. But thirty nine percent of Honda
(11:32):
is kind of depends on United States, twenty nine percent
for Houndai, twenty eight percent for Nissan. So I mean,
you got to it kind of goes down on this,
So it's not as much as I thought it would be. Ye,
Honda is, you know, nearly forty percent, so that's a
big number. Yeah, Well, we're talking about the whole world. Yeah, yeah,
we are. We are talking about the whole world. And
(11:54):
because there's I mean obviously there's eighteen million, nineteen million
cars build worldwide that get consumed new cards get consumed
every year.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
That's a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
And I think we did an article a while back
that you got over in any one point now you've
got about a billion cars on the on the planet
that are running, and you know that kind of ebbs
and flows depending on the.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Any given time, I've got three at my house at art.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Well, yeah, or heading to the salvage yard and then
they're getting, you know, redone, so I don't know that
number kind of goes up and down. Twenty five and
I'll kind of go through the list here a little bit.
You know, a Key is twenty eight, and then they
kind of go with Hondi a little bit. Ferrari's twenty five.
Toyota is twenty five, BMW seventeen, of Bobo sixteen, same
(12:44):
for Mercedes, Audi and Boltswagen. Volkswagen is twelve. Yeah, that's interesting.
I thought that it seems like, yeah, we have a
lot of Volkswagons. Yeah, a lot Ferrari. I'm surprised at
that number. I mean, because I mean they aren't turning
out cars like Toyota. No, I mean how many cars
is Ferrari meke a year?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Not that many.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I mean you're talking about one thousands, yes, in the thousands,
yeah if that Yeah, maybe one hundred thousand of depending
on the model there is, but more like fifty sixty thousand. Yeah,
and apparently most of the buyers are in the United States,
well twenty five percent of the buyers and seventy five
percent are around the world. But just an interesting of
(13:28):
cars and how they are. So what's hit.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Over to Jim.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Jim's got a twenty fourteen Lexus Jim, what's up today?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Well, hey, guys, Hey, I've got a a twenty fourteen
Lexus ES three fifteen and it's got about one hundred
and forty thousand miles. Thing runs like a top as
I've had very little money that I had put into
this thing. Question about things like radiator hoses and things
like that, they've never been replaced. They seem okay, is
that something that I should be concerned about?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Well, so the reason that they go better now is
they have figured out electrolysis and the electricity that used
to flow through the coolant, and that's why hoses used
to go bad back in the sixties and seventies. And
now I think the hose technology got better. They figured
out the electricity problem and how to make that goat
(14:20):
away with grounding things, and they just don't go bad
as much as they used to. I say, when you
get to a certain point that the hot and cold
just takes effect, so they get squishy and rock hard.
I mean a lot of times when we replace the radiator,
we recommend hoses, not because we're trying to say, hey,
(14:41):
we need to upsell it's just when you take off
that rock hard hose and try to put it back
on it just it creates a seal and a leak somewhere.
Do you take it out of town or is it
primarily an intown car.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
In the country. So most of my driving is on the.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Highway with yeah, yeah, so it is.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
So, you know, it was doing from Omaha, and I'm
you know, I'm real good about you know, I've changed
the equivalent about three times since I've had it, you know,
oil changes and all that other stuff. So I keep
up on the maintenance on the thing, right, I would.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Say, you know a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
If it's an in town car, you know, maybe it
isn't necessarily that critical because you're never far away from
a tow truck that can you know, two three, four
miles and you can get it fixed. But if you're
putting a lot of miles on it and you kind
of go back and forth and you're kind of relying
on it to do that, it probably wouldn't hurt. It
really wouldn't. I mean, if you're going to do one
to do them all it's and do the heater hoses
(15:42):
along with them. No, it's good maintenance, especially with the
miles you got on. But they're great cars. I mean
they just run and run and run.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Yeah, I think from from a repair perspective. Since I've
had it, I've put about six into it, and that's
over ten years worth of driving. So it's just uhmal car,
really it is. Yeah, you got any oil anything like that.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
So we've had several of these particular cars.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Just run right up to three hundred and three hundred
and twenty five each and at a customer did a
lot of driving and once they hit about three to
three and a quarter they got rid of it and
went and found another one just.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Like it, the low mileage. So yeah, very very durable car.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Okay, really good. Okay, well listen, guys, I appreciate it.
I may contact my local mechanic and see what he
can do about changing that's hoses or something.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Absolutely, yeah, And I'm sure you've kept up with the
timing belts correct.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Well, that doesn't have a time Oh that got chain
on it?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Oh good? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah, yeah, I can't remember when they went through off
a belt into into chain anymore.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
So yeah, no belts do that. You'd be done.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Appreciate it, all right, guys, appreciate, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
To call Jim.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, I can never They went from belts to chains
and back to belts, and now they're Iribay's chains again. Yeah,
except for though oil pump belts. Yeah, those are those
are belts. But why do we go back to oil
pump belts? Why did the three leader Duramax and the
V six go back to a rubber belt in the
(17:12):
oil in the back of the engine. Yeah, that takes
nine hours to pull. M Yeah, you got to say,
answered I Yeah, all right, all this question, We're gonna
head over to Mike. Mike's got a twenty seventeen Nissan Rogue. Mike,
what's up today?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
Hey, how you doing? My wife has a twenty seventeen
Nissan Rogue and she's complaining that sometimes when she's at
a spot light and she goes to accelerate, she won't
have anything like no RPMs. The car doesn't go nowhere
for like a five second pause, then the car will
go and act normal. I wasn't quite sure what.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That would be.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Would it be like trial position censor or something along
those lines.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
So when you floor the gas like, you get no
response at all, not even a hiccup in rpm. Nothing okay,
So that would lead me straight to a throttle issue. Right,
is there any check engine light on if you scan
the car at all?
Speaker 7 (18:15):
No, no check engine light. I did have a guy
hook it up to a scan tool where you can
watch the parameters go up and down, and he said
everything looked normal. So I wasn't quite sure.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Well, you're trying to catch a needle in a haystack,
and because your problem doesn't happen all the time, that's
why it's looking normal.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
But you really only you.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Only have a gas pedal and you only have a
throttle body. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Out of those two, Kyle,
I would think the throttle body is your biggest offender here.
But when you step on the gas, there's electronic signals
that go from that gas pedal out to the throttle body.
And part of the problem is when you're stepping on
(18:57):
the gas, the delay could be at the pedal or
the delay could be at the throttle body, because the
throttle body received the signal and it says, I don't
know what to do with this, and then it finally
takes off and off it goes out of a fifty
to fifty. Uh you know, flip with the coin on
that we're going to probably take the throttle body.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Oh yeah, bottle money, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Just what.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You just don't have a lot of failures across cars
with the gas pedal, yes, correct.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
You just don't. It doesn't see any weather. It just
kind of hangs out there on the floor.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yeah, it's not impossible, but I would say, what five
to ten percent, Kyle, if that, If that is a
pedal problem, and the only pedal problems, we'll usually see
your general motors, some Fords, but most of the general motors.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Okay, oh well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
There might be a few of those in the salvage yard.
I bet you there are. I know there are there
because there's a bunch of them there.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
We've said there's a bunch of them in the salvage
because the trainings are bad.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
So you might get oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Well good good.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Well, I mean to see, you might have other parts
that you require to be there that are probably instill
in good shape because the training is bad in that car.
So and it's quick, easy to do it and pull
it and check it, and you haven't put a lot
of money into it, you know, and it might have
might have a pedal there also, So but I tried
we'd started the throttle body.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Oh yeah, awesome. I appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Tellas, have a great day, appreciate the call.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yeah, you know, when we went to throttle went to
throttle bodies, it was kind of like, you know, I
don't know, but we got rid of a lot of stuff.
Oh yeah, we got rid of the throttle position sensor
that always failed. I got all this stuff all in
one unit, all in one unit, and it's been tremendously
dependable compared to the the IAC motor, the IDOL speed
(20:56):
control motor, and all that crap that was on there.
So yeah, it's it's been a it's been a positive.
So all right, we're gonna take a quick break on
the Mister Mechanics show. Five, five, eight to eleven, ten
is the numbers to get in. We've got some open lines.
Give us a call. Pay back in a minute. Bob's
got an eighteen Nissan Rogue, Bob, what's up today?
Speaker 9 (21:13):
Hey this show, buddy, Bob. Bob, my son got his
daughter a eighteen Rogues. There is there a problem with
the translates on those?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, yeah, all of them.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
How many and how many miles do you do you
have an idea or no?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Anywhere from eighteen to excuse me, eighty to about one
hundred and twenty five hundred and thirty right in that range.
Here's the problem with nobody has the technology to rebuild
these particular CBT transmissions, so you end up buying a
new one. So it's it's there anywhere from four thousand
(21:58):
to eight thousand dollars on the model. That not all
for rogues. I mean, this is a cross Nissan. You
can't really re build them. You can rebuild them, but
not not successfully that anybody's ever really done and have
any reliability. That's really what it boils down to. They're
very complicated and there's no outsource for parts on those.
(22:20):
I believe you cannot find a part for internally in
that transmission. Yeah, we had one the other day that
I think I can't remember what it was, but it
was kind of a small, insignificant part and say in
the valve body, well, we just want to replace that
switch or whatever it was, and we were just told
you it's not available. I can't replace that switch. That
(22:41):
that switch is going to cost you five thousand dollars
because you have to do a whole thing, so that
is in your forecast. Hate to tell you, if it
was me, i'd make sure that the fluid how many
miles yours got on it.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
I think.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I would say, go get yourself a powertrain warranty, but
that covers the engine and transmission and uh, because if
you're going to keep that car for a long time,
you're you're more than likely going to use it.
Speaker 9 (23:14):
Well, yeah, I think he got that on there. I
don't know if it had the hailstorm and then they
they totaled it mm hmm, and so you know he
bought it back because and just replaced the windshield.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Well, you know, other than that, they're not a terrible car,
but that's just a huge expense, and a lot of
them go to the salvage yard because by the time
you spend five six grand on a on a transmission,
you're teetering with what the yeah, where the car is worth?
And it's like, well, I'm throwing I'm throwing good money
after bad. Get yourself an extended warranty so it covers
(23:54):
the powertrain, engine, transmission.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
You'd be fine if not.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Get ahold of Mike Mike needs some parts for his Yeah,
he needs he needs a torottle body.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Maybe you can swap some parts around.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
Hey, hey, thanks for jaking. Jared'siled on my son and
large up.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Oh, no problem, Bob, anytime. Appreciate you appreciate your business.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
All right, thanks.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
Man, that was nice to you. Guys checked all the
lights and everything. I can't check ray legs when I'm
in the car.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
It's tough.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
You're just not that quick anymore. I can't still, but
it's tough. I know, blazing speed. All right, we're gonna
head over to Jerry. Jerry's got a twenty twelve Silverado. Jerry,
what's up today?
Speaker 10 (24:42):
Well, I'm having trouble with the theater. It's got the
dual climate control, you know, one for the passenger side
of one for the driver's side. And if I turn
it down, you know, uh say, like you're driving and
it's cooling the or war, I need warm air. It
(25:03):
works fine, but if you turn it down in the
afternoon on the driver's side only, yeah, and then you
park it, you know later at night you come out,
you want a little warm air, you turn it up,
and it sometimes not all the time, won't come back
up on the driver's side. But if you leave it
(25:25):
parked overnight and you remember to turn it back up
before you park it, so you.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
Want warm air in the morning, when you take off
of the frosty, it'll blow warm air. But if you
turn it down, it doesn't do it all the time.
You turn it down and you try to turn it
back up, it won't blow warm air. It blow cold
air all the time, just on the driver's side.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
And thought needs an actuator. Yeah, it needs an actuator.
And it sounds to me like Kyle, I tell me
if I'm wrong, Once it goes all the way down
to the bottom, it's probably just sticky.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
And then if you or the gears stripped out.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Right, So if you when you bring it up a
little ways halfway through its motion, it's that that motion
in there, it operates okay, and or it's just it's
gone bad in the down position, and that's why it
takes a little bit of time to go and that's
why when you put it up it's still good in
that up position. That makes sense. So yeah, and it
(26:29):
sounds to me like your control heads working okay. And
the control heads hardly had much of a problem when
those that they.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Were always really pretty darn good.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Okay, So yeah, you got plastic gears in a plastic housing.
The only thing metal in that particular actuator is the
little tiny windings in that little tiny motor. And that's
about it.
Speaker 11 (26:49):
So okay. But the you know the one on the
passenger side, I've tried that one, and you can turn
now and down all the way and then you're driving
and you turn it up all the way. You're a
blow hotter and you turn it down all the way. Yeah,
that one still.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Then there is. Yeah, so you've got dual actuators. You've
got how many in that? So if you've got dual mode,
you've got five actuators underneath the dash? Okay, so that yeah,
So make sure that when you are replacing that one,
because I would probably say the one he's afters up
by the gas pedal.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Sometimes they were underneath, like on the passenger side, depends.
I can't think of the year. I just know what
it looks like underneath the dash. But you can always
because they're all easy to get to. They aren't hard
to get to, Yeah, and just pop one down and
just kind of use your hand and turn the door
and see if it's affecting the side you want.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, or move it up and down.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
But whatever you do, make sure you mark it so
that way when you go back later or you know,
you don't mistake which one you don't want to take
out the wrong one.
Speaker 11 (27:59):
Well yeah, no, no, okay, all right, I'll give it
that a WORL man.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
All right, sounds good. Jerry appreciate the call. All right,
we're going to head over to Brian. Brian's got a
twenty sixteen GMC Brian? What is up today?
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I can?
Speaker 8 (28:19):
Yeah, So I got kind of a nuisance problem. My
door chime, the seatbelt.
Speaker 12 (28:26):
Alarm, all that stuff is matched.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
Out volume, and any amount of resetting or adjustment of
that particular item makes no difference. I'm just curious if
that is purely software or if there's some other component.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
To be honest, this is the first dealing with that
particular noise that.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I've come across.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, but but since I've owned a few of these cars,
I do know that you can go in, and so
do you You know you can go in and you can
You only got like two or three it's like low
medium and high that you can adjust that with and that.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Part of the fuse block, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
It's going to say part of the fuse blocks are
part of the b CM. The b CM is what's
controlling that. So it's kind of like your your turn
signals go through the b CM and that's what's you know,
that's where you can hear the click click click is
coming through the speakers. It's not coming from a physical
relay anymore underneath the dash. So to answer your question, yeah,
(29:26):
you're kind of on the right area where that's that's
through the b CM, and there's not much you're going
to be able to do to affect it, change it,
move it, unless you go maybe the dealership has you know,
equipment that they can go through their scanner and maybe
(29:46):
change the parameters and maybe get rid of that. Maybe
an update on the computer will or the b CM
will can can get rid of it completely.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
That'd be nice, wouldn't it. Yeah, that'd be nice.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
I did a little bit of Internet research and it
does seem like it's happened to others, so it's not
just mine.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
But nope, set right after fourteen to eighteen when they
changed that body style is when they started to have
a lot of electronic goofy problems. The seven to thirteen
was a rock solid platform that just did not have
it has problems, as all do, but it just did
not have a lot of inside problems at all. It
(30:27):
was just it was bulletproof for the most part. But
at fourteen and on is when they kind of started
hadding some more problems. But yeah, that's kind of where
you're heading, all right, Sorry to tell you, but it's
gut can be kind of annoying. You're right, it is annoying, nuisance,
kind of noise.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Yeah, and it's super loud, and they don't.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Turn it down far enough. They should have four or
five notches. They should be able to turn that all
the way down to hardly anything, right, because I wish
mine was a little bit less than one.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
I don't know why we still have it, I mean,
other than to remember your keys, because the headlights will
turn off on their own, the dome lights will off
on their own.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
What do we need to chime?
Speaker 8 (31:03):
Yeah, And I've I've gotten in the habit of buckling
my seat belt before I start the truck, just to
avoid it.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah, and that's kind of the goal. Yeah, but that's
not our goal. That's just kind of the goal, right,
all right. I appreciate the call, Brian. Yeah, we've got
there are you know. Unfortunately we don't wear a seat
belt all the time because we're when we're driving customers
(31:30):
cards other bysy'd be putting the seat belt on and
off forty forty times a day, you know. And it's
just there are somewhere going around the block. Yeah, it's
just yeah, we're out your shoulder. Man, Are they allowed?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Man?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Are they annoying?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I tell you what, all right, we take quick breaking
the mister mechanic show will be back in a minute.
It's you know, interesting how they change models, Like I
was talking about that GMC, how that seven to thirteen
just was a great card, didn't have much problems inside outside,
they just got it all together even I mean, oh,
seven's only had a few problems, but they are always
that first year model always does. And as soon as
(32:04):
they changed into the fourteen, it was had all sorts
of interesting problems. First year the eight speed, which has
been an ongoing those were a problem lawsuit and yeah
eight speed transmission, and then it just had electronic problems
and it just like all the time that we spent
(32:25):
doing getting it right, just to turn it somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Yeah, because the four OL sixty and the four L eighty,
those were good transmissions, I mean for the most part.
I mean once you started hauling with them, they had
some problems. But people are known to overload things all
the time.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yeah, And as long as you service transmission, you know,
it's it's one of those things that get away from you.
You know, you service it every sixty thousand miles and
just keep the fluid in it good and clean. And
the death of a transmission has to do with heat.
So if you're hauling something, you need to try to
figure out and usually these newer modern trucks have a
(33:01):
temperature range and you just don't want to get it
too high. And when he does, is just bakes things
in there makes it go bad lower the better, believe
it or not. So all right, we're going to head
over to Joe. Joe's got a Mustang. Joe, what's going
on today?
Speaker 12 (33:19):
So I just wanted to comment the person that called
in earlier who had the throttle position sensor that he
thought might be bad. Yeah, I had a twenty fifteen
Mustang that when the car could not sense if the
brake was disengaged. It would keep you from stepping on it,
like it was a preventer for power breaking. There was
(33:42):
a plastic piece on the brake arm that broke and
it was not engaging the sensor that said your foot
was off the brake. That screwed up the ability to
give throttle to the car. And the way I figured
it out was when I parked at the brake lights
were still on. I don't know if there's anything on
his car, but it threw me for a big loop.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Yeah, yeah, that is interesting. Yeah, because you're right, it's
in order for the car to restart on the on
certain cars you've got, it knows when you pull the
your foot off the brake, is that that's where your
restart mechanimic mechanism is So yeah, it wasn't yeah, yeah, yeah,
but the concept is kind of the same.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
But yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
That's interesting. I appreciate the appreciate the call. I appreciate
passing that on. Yeah, if you always find interesting goofy
things like that all the time.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
So much stuff happens when you push a pedal in
the car,
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